Can’t people still find them from DHT and PEX or whatever they’re called?

The admins have nothing to do with this. The comments left on the torrent were from the uploaded and a single mod.

Givers and takers. Seeders have the complete file and leechers are currently downloading the file.

That mod is definitely the same guy posting on reddit as his complaint is literally almost word for word identical on both comments.

Meh this is one instance that just keeps getting reposted every couple days. Pirating executable files has always been a risk and brought with it issues like this. There is little risk with music, tv, and movies.

Does that even apply? Youtube videos are already free to watch regardless of whether you have patreon or not (barring people with ‘patron exclusives’)

They are actually responsible for paying arbitration for all the ex-employees suing the company after Twitter argued in court that they must go through arbitration. Last I heard was that they were having trouble paying these legal costs as well.